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I have several printers connected to my pc, including a laserjet and a thermal label printer. When I make a label I want it to print on the label printer: when I write a letter I want it to print on the laserjet. This is self evident.

However, in TextMaker, if I compose a letter and make its printer the laserjet, then I switch to the label document, the printer for the label document has also been changed to the laserjet. If I change the printer for the label document to the label printer, then the printer for the letter document also changes to the label printer. This is ridiculous, and means that I am constantly sending documents to the wrong printer.

Is it possible to have different printers associated with different documents in TextMaker, and to keep these different printers associated with each document?

Thanks for any help!

Regards - David

David,

you can set a printer globally for the application but not for every single document. All you can do is to set different paper bins for every document in File=>Page Setup but that won't help in your case.

There's a trick that could help:
Install the TextMaker Viewer additionally to your full version TextMaker 2010 (Download on www.officeviewers.com). In TextMaker Viewer you can set a different standard printer than in TextMaker 2010. Then you can use the Viewer just to print your files via the laser printer or label printer. Please note that you cannot edit the files in the Viewer. Use it just to print the file via the other printer.

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Sven Leßmann
SoftMaker Software GmbH

There is yet another solution. Use the fax function for printing to the secondary printer. You can have a separate printer in File/Send/Fax and another one in File/Print.

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Martin Kotulla
SoftMaker Software GmbH

To me, this seems to be a serious deficiency. The labels are 75mm x 50mm, the letters are A4. There is no way that I would want to send a label to the laserjet, or a letter to the label printer, so it is very frustrating that the printer for one changes when I change the printer for the other. But I don't suppose that TextMaker will be changed just for me...

This was not a problem in Lotus Wordpro, the word processor that I used to use until Windows 7 64 bit came along, because it remembered the correct printer for each document.

However, had it been a problem, I could have recorded a macro to change the printer, print the document and change the printer back, and attached this macro to a new button on the toolbar. I think I can do this in Textmaker because I notice that there are some user defined buttons, and I assume that I can attach a Basic script to one of these. Is there a *simple* tutorial somewhere on how to do this?

Thanks for any help!

Regards - David

There is no macro API (yet) for changing the printer, so this will not work.

Again, I can only emphasize that you should look at File/Send/Fax and setting a different printer there. With a regular printer driver chosen, the Send Fax command is a Print command in disguise.

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Martin Kotulla
SoftMaker Software GmbH

Oh dear, I am surprised that one cannot change the printer in a Basic script. This would seem quite fundamental for a wordprocessor. Will it be added at some time soon?

In the meantime I will try the Fax alternative as you suggest. But this will only work for the documents that I print every day. I also have other printers that I use less often, so I will still have to manually change the printer for these. All rather tedious, when Lotus Wordpro used to take care of this for me.

Thanks for your help.

Regards - David

I agree with David that printer settings should be saved with documents, allowing different printers to be configured for different documents. OpenOffice does this, and it's a very useful feature.

I'm not quite sure about this. I work with my documents at home and in the office, so it's convenient for me that in each case I get the standard printer as default. If printer settings were saved with the document, I would have to change the printer manually every time I want to print a document I have printed before at the other location.

But you would only have to do this once at each location, the first time you printed your document in the office, and then the first time at home. This does not seem to me to be such a burden. I doubt that you are printing dozens of documents both in the office and at home every day.

However, imagine my plight. An order comes in. I need to print address labels and a packing note. For each of these document I have to change the printer. This can happen numerous times during the day.

Of course, if TextMaker had a full script capability, like Lotus Wordpro, you could easily record separate scripts to print documents to the work printer and home printer, and then attach these scripts to new buttons on the toolbar. Then you would only need to remember where you were and click the correct button to have the document printed on the correct printer. Such a capability would also solve my problem. But unfortunately you cannot do this in TextMaker.

Fortunately for me I have found a solution. Wordpro will run on Windows 64bit, despite what IBM said, so I now have my scripts and toolbar buttons set up again. I can format and print multiple copies of labels in different font sizes on the label printer, and print packing notes on the laserjet, each with a single click of the mouse. Luxury.

Regards - David

I will refer this as a feature request to our developers.

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Sven Leßmann
SoftMaker Software GmbH

I didn't know it was possible to attach two printers. so clueless.Thanks for this one.

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